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Storytelling in Criminal: The Dead and the Dying

Matthew Amuso — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:00:42 +0000

The Dead and the Dying, written by Ed Brubaker and illustrated by Sean Phillips, is the third volume of Criminal, and it marks the point where the series really hit its stride. This is where… [more]

Portraits In Alienated British Youth Circa 1989-90, Part Twenty-Four : All Good Things

Ryan C. — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 03:05:53 +0000

The consensus opinion among readers of John Smith and Sean Phillips’ Straitgate appears to be that this was “the story of a mass-shooter,” or words to that effect. But I think that I humbly —… [more]

Portraits In Alienated British Youth Circa 1989-90, Part Twenty-Three : Ka-Pow!

Ryan C. — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 15:00:25 +0000

Well — hello again! An observant acquaintance on twitter recently remarked to me that he “hoped I’d get back to (my) ‘Portraits In Alienated British Youth’ series at some point,” and I had to make… [more]

A Tour of the 2016 Eisner Nominees, Part 7 – The Fade Out

Ian Dawe — Mon, 02 May 2016 15:00:15 +0000

The Fade Out" title="A Tour of the 2016 Eisner Nominees, Part 7 – The Fade Out" style="float:left;" />The Fade Out is a comic about Hollywood, specifically that magical post-war late-1940s Hollywood that is so often romanticized. It’s one of America’s true mythic places, full of hard-drinking writers, bombshell girls (and the occasional… [more]

Portraits In Alienated British Youth Circa 1989-90, Part Twenty-Two : Breaking Point

Ryan C. — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 17:00:43 +0000

Hard as it may be to believe, Dave, the troubled-to-put-mildly “star” of John Smith and Sean Phillips’ Straitgate, does, in fact, have friends. In fact, if you’ll recall, we met a few of them back… [more]

Portraits In Alienated British Youth Circa 1989-90, Part Twenty-One : The Human Factor

Ryan C. — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:30:09 +0000

I think it’s perfectly fair to say that the first two segments of John Smith and Sean Phillips’ Straitagte didn’t exactly present their protagonist, Dave, in anything like a sympathetic (or, for that matter, even… [more]

Portraits in Alienated British Youth Circa 1989-90, Part Twenty: “Movement Of Ja People”

Ryan C. — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 18:00:47 +0000

Okay, I admit it: chapter two of John Smith and Sean Phillips’ Straitgate is entitled “Exodus,” and I couldn’t come up with anything like a decent “headline” for this segment, so I went with the… [more]

Portraits In Alienated British Youth Circa 1989-90, Part Nineteen: Minding The Store

Ryan C. — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:20:35 +0000

The first two chapters of John Smith and Sean Phillips’ Straitgate, which ran back-to-back in issue number fifty of the UK comics anthology magazine Crisis, may not have been given pride of place on the… [more]

Portraits In Alienated British Youth Circa 1989-90, Part Eighteen: What’s To Like?

Ryan C. — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 16:00:24 +0000

The image above comes directly from the festering cesspool that swirls in the mind of Dave, the protagonist in John Smith and Sean Phillips’ Straitgate. Okay, sure — if we want to be absolutely technical… [more]

Portraits In Alienated British Youth Circa 1989-90, Part Seventeen: Structure, Format, And Other Boring Details

Ryan C. — Wed, 30 Dec 2015 16:30:16 +0000

In the interview with John Smith and Sean Phillips that ran in the UK comic fanzine Speakeasy that we mentioned a couple of segments back, Smith makes a statement that I find somewhat curious: we… [more]

Portraits In Alienated British Youth Circa 1989-90, Part Sixteen : Meet Dave

Ryan C. — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 20:30:07 +0000

So, who’s this “Dave” guy you heard mentioned in our last segment here, anyway? Yeah, okay, you may have gathered that he’s the central figure in John Smith and Sean Phillips’ Straitgate, but beyond that,… [more]

Portraits In Alienated British Youth Circa 1989-90, Part Fifteen : Les Enfants Terrible

Ryan C. — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 21:00:14 +0000

Debuting in the pages of the well-regarded (and, at least by some of us, much-missed) British comics anthology series Crisis — specifically in issue number 50, cover-dated September, 1990 — John Smith and Sean Phillips’… [more]

Image Expo and the Changing Value of the Creator

Paul Jaissle — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:00:36 +0000

Among with the flurry of new series announced at this year’s Image Expo was the news that Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Criminal, Incognito, Fatale) had signed a five-year deal with the publisher that effectively… [more]

July Comics

Bryan Miller — Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:17:18 +0000

FEATURED BOOK Wolverine #3 I know you’re reading this. Everybody is reading this. Wolverine is one of those books you wouldn’t usually catch a comic snob dead reading. They probably did anyway, but you wouldn’t… [more]

Comics Published on 18 June 2003

Matt Martin — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:07:04 +0000

Sleeper #6 DC Comics/Wildstorm – Ed Brubaker (w); Sean Phillips (a) Man, this book just breaks my heart. I say that about a lot of books and typically when I say it, it’s referencing the… [more]

Comics Published on 6 November 2002

Matt Martin — Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:26:54 +0000

Powers #25 Image Comics – Brian Bendis (w); Michael Oeming (a) Periodically, I like to sit down and make a list of all the titles I buy, month to month. In doing so, what I… [more]

Comics Published on 2 October 2002

Matt Martin — Mon, 07 Oct 2002 15:29:03 +0000

Uncanny X-Men #414 Marvel Comics — Chuck Austen (w); Sean Phillips (p/i) After a while you run out of ways to say the same good things about the same books. I know that problem is… [more]